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My wife and I live in the foothills of West Virginia. We as a team have been into keeping many kinds of aquatic habitat's for over 20 years.
Fresh water, marine saltwater/reef. We currently have one 180 gallon mixed reef aquarium, two 1/2 gallon pico aquariums and one 5 gallon nano

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Our reef aquarium was set up on August 2, 2003. The tank is a 180 gallon reef ready glass aquarium with twin overflows. I thought I would try my own style semi- Berlin method for my system set up. I used a 2" layer of coarse reef sand for the sub straight and a 4" deep layer of reef sand in the sump/refuge area. This way I can always replace the Deep sand bed without breaking down the tank. The sump/fuge is a DIY 30 gallon breeder aquarium.

1 Lawnmower Bleny	1 Yellow Polyp Coral
1 Snowflake eel	1 Brown/Green Zoo Colony	Scarlet Reef Hermits
2 maroon clowns	1 Brown Finger Leather	Emerald Crabs
1 Naso Tang	1 Tan Toadstool Leather	1 Purple/ Orange Lobster
3 Green Chromis	2 Orange/Green Zoo Colony	2 Rose Bulb Tip Anemones
1 Blue Hippo Tang	1 Pocillopora (Brown Cauliflower)	Pistol Shrimp
2 Percula Clown fish	1 Hydnophora (Neon Green)	Turbo Snails
1 Convict Worm Goby	1 Turbinaria (Green cup coral)	Cerith Snails
1 Sixline Wrasse	1 Millepora frag (Pink w/ yellow polyp)	Bumble Bee Snails
1 Copperband Butterfly	1 Acropora Stag (Blue tip)	Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
1 Purple Tang	1 Montipora Digitata ( orange)	Harlequin Serpant Star
1 Flame Hawkfish	1 Montipora Plating ( orange)	Blind Shrimp
1 Yellow Watchman Goby	1 Montipora Spumosa ( green)
	1 Acropora (green po;yp purple tip)

•  M.R.C MR2 custom skimmer
  
•  Mag Drive 1800 Gph return pump
•  6 maxi-jet 1200 power heads
  
•  1 350 watt and 1 250 watt heater
•  Reeftek calcium reactor with A.R.M media  
• AquaController II ( would not have a reef tank without one)
  
• Red Sea wavemaker pro
  
• Red Sea 100 ozonizer
  
• Custom SeaLife fixture with 2 96 watt PowerCompact, two 175 watt and one 250 watt (center) XM 10K Halide lamps.
• Reeftek  Kalk reactor
• Nautilis III dosing pump with float switch
• 30 gal sump/fuge
  

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Daily check list: Sump level, flow of all pumps power heads and skimmers, temperature, PH,          ORP,clean glass as needed. refill bucket with RO/DI for kalk reactor.

Weekly: Water testing, clean skimmer pot.

Bi-weekly: Vacuum and clean inside tank and sub straight, clean power heads, change overflow    filters, 10% water change, clean ph and orp probes.    

Monthly: Remove lighting fixture and clean UV filter

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